Barbara Hammer Movies

An archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of iconic, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer.

Essay documentary explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture. First feature by a pioneer of lesbian cinema,...

Through intimate interviews, provocative art, and rare, historical film and video footage, this feature documentary reveals how art addressing...

A comedy about a troop of shield-bearing Amazons who take over city institutions before relaxing in the country. "Superdyke" takes women into the...

"Available Space is a film made for performance on a 360 degree rotary projection table. A woman breaks through confining architectural space, the...

PEARL DIVER is about the frustration of communication between two women who try to tell each other "I love you" underwater making humorous a very wet...

A celebration and collage of lesbians, including footage of the Women's International Day march in SF and joyous dancing from the last night of the...

Four stages of a lesbian relationship explored in an experimental film starring performance artists Terry Sendgraff and Barbara Hammer on suspended...

A personal ritual of strength is getting a haircut

Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pioneering 1974 short film Dyketactics, a...

Lesbian Whale animates early notebooks drawings made by Barbara Hammer between 1969 and 1971, with a voiceover commentary by friends and peers. The...

What do construction workers do in their well-earned breaks? How might Angelina Jolie's and Brad Pitt's relationship have ended? And what really...

Early Super 8 short by Barbara Hammer.

The film examines the ways that women directors have contributed to this genre and emphasizes the role that the media play in representation of...

Early Barbara Hammer film shot on Super 8mm in color and silent.

A hand plays with a vagina as the same scene drifts over a sea of erotic rock formations.

1920’s Surrealist artists Claude Cahun and marcel Moore come to life in this hybrid documentary. Lesbians and step-sisters, the gender-bending...

Barbara Hammer's first film.

In Stone Circles, Hammer really leaves ‘nation’ as well as ‘era’ and creates a film poem on the prehistoric stone cultures of...

Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film. The film calls forth the spirit...